Protecting
People While Increasing Knowledge: Ethics
in Health Research, Evaluation and Quality Improvement
conference.
Plan to be part of this ground-breaking
national conference.
May 4-6, 2008
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Calgary, Alberta
The Alberta Research Ethics Community Consensus Initiative
(ARECCI) and its partners are pleased to bring you this
inaugural national conference on managing the ethics
oversight of a spectrum of knowledge generating activities
in Canada’s health care and research system.
Come share with peers and learn what others are doing
to deal with ethics in activities including research,
quality improvement (QI), quality assurance (QA) and
program evaluation (PE). Take away on-the-ground ideas
you can apply in your work, and be part of helping to
set a future agenda.
Conference goal
To enhance “5 Cs” in ethics oversight
of knowledge generating projects in health:
- Clarity:
regarding criteria used to decide which projects require
review by a research ethics board review or other
type of oversight group.
- Consistency:
across the system, in the application of criteria
and related guidelines by research ethics boards,
health authorities, researchers, project leaders and
health care managers.
- Coordination: of processes across
research and practice jurisdictions, and across geographies.
- Capacity: of people and structures
in all settings, to implement relevant guidelines
and to improve ethical oversight of projects involving
people or their health information.
- Common sense: in approaches which
strike the balance between delivering and evaluating
service, generating knowledge and protecting people,
ensuring oversight and minimizing bureaucracy.
Conference objectives
- Share common strengths, issues and gaps in the ethical
management of knowledge generating projects in Canada’s
health care and research system.
- Identify existing capacity and resources that can
contribute to a coordinated, sensible approach.
- Develop tangible next steps to address the issues
and build on existing strengths.
Who will attend?
- Managers and decision-makers in health services;
health professionals in institutional and community
settings.
- Research ethics board members, research administrators
and managers of ethics offices and processes.
- Project leaders in the areas of program evaluation,
quality improvement, quality assurance, health surveillance
and public health as well as leaders of research and
evaluation units.
- Applied health researchers and social scientists,
senior research policy makers and funders.
- Risk managers (privacy, legal, data custodians).
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